Beijing time on March 8, the Pistons sat at their home to usher in a showdown with the Eagles, the current Eagles temporarily ranked tenth in the East, still retain the opportunity to enter the play-offs, and in the last 10 or so games, Atalanta soldiers also want to try their best to attack towards a more advanced position, but on the contrary, the second-to-last Pistons have no worries, they are in the rebuilding, is to want to cultivate more young people this season, and today when they meet the Eagles, the Pistons also simply play a role of "Cheng biting gold", Through extra time, he won 113-110 narrowly, achieving a three-game winning streak in the near future.
In this campaign, the Pistons Wonro Kaide Cunningham can be said to be the biggest contributor to the team's victory, he started 43 minutes, 28 points, 6 rebounds, 10 assists, 1 steal and 1 block on 10-of-25 shooting, filling his own data column, so that Cunningham also became the first rookie player in pistons history to score 25+5+10 in a single game after Isaiah Thomas. Pistons coach Devin Casey also praised Cunningham after the game: "This is just the beginning of him, and his winning performance today is enough to win him the best rookie award this season." ”
According to relevant statistics, in the last 8 games, Cunningham can average 21 points, 8 rebounds and 6 assists per game, performing extremely all-round, and really played his template Doncic's all-rounder. Cunningham, who is only 20 years old, was known for his all-round style as early as the NCAA's Oklahoma State University, when his draft template was lone ranger Doncic, and after joining the Pistons as a Champion, Cunningham played iron in the first few games, and the outside world also unanimously questioned him as a parallelist.
However, Cunningham did not care about this, and with a period of adjustment, he finally found the rhythm of the game in the NBA. In the November 22 game with the Lakers, although the Pistons regrettably lost, Cunningham handed over the first triple-double of his career with 13 points, 12 rebounds and 10 assists in that game, and on January 31 this year, he won the second career triple-double with 19 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists, which was also a proof for himself with practical actions. At the Recent All-Star Rookie Challenge in Cleveland, Corningham won the MVP of the Rookie Tournament and the most iconic single award of his career.
As of now, Cunningham has raised his stats to 16.5 points, 5.8 rebounds, 5.2 assists and 1.2 steals, including scoring the first of the 21st rookie, in addition, his average steals and assists per game can also rank in the top two of the rookie list, the performance is extremely eye-catching, and successively play a stable performance, Cunningham is really likely to "back-end power", in the last 10 games towards the best rookie awards, the most promising rookie at present includes the Cavaliers' Tanhua Mowbury , the Thunder's No. 6 show Josh Gidi and the Raptors No. 4 show Scotty Barnes, of course, the recent rocket leader Green's state recovery also has a good chance of impacting this award.
But if you really want to look at the all-round type of these rookie player data, the only people who can become the most powerful contenders for ROY are Gidey and Cunningham, the former averaging 12.5 points, 7.8 rebounds and 6.4 assists per game, although rebounds and assists are better than Cunningham, but the average score per game is relatively inferior, and because of the hip injury, Gidy has missed many games for the Thunder, if he continues to be injured after that, Gidy is limited by the number of appearances. Cunningham may actually have a chance to be named the season's rookie of the season after the season.